Rick Allison Explained

Rick Allison (born Éric Vleminckx, born July 17, 1964,[1] in Brussels) is a Belgian-born Canadian[1] singer, author and record producer.

Biography

In 1990, Allison met singer Lara Fabian in a piano-bar in Brussels. They started writing their first songs together and went to Montréal in 1991 to work on Fabian's first album.[2] This record came out in 1991 in Canada and was a huge commercial success. Allison produced Fabian's following francophone albums Carpe Diem, Pure and Nue, all of which performed very well and spawned several hit singles in Canada and French-speaking Europe. He also worked on her first English-language album Lara Fabian.[3]

For the Eurovision Song Contest in 2002, Allison wrote the music for the French entry, "Il faut du temps" by Sandrine François.[2] That same year, he contributed three songs on Johnny Hallyday's album À la vie, à la mort, including the single Pense à moi.

Allison´s other major successes as a producer include the album De l'amour le mieux by Natasha St-Pier (2002) and Chimène Badi's debut album Entre nous (2003). De l'amour le mieux was the third studio album by St-Pier; it reached third position on the album charts in France and Belgium (Wallonia).[4] [5] Badi's album Entre nous reached fourth position on the French albums chart[6] and the single of the same name topped the French Singles Chart.[7] Later on he worked with other young female singers, including Nolwenn Leroy, Julie Zenatti and Élodie Frégé.

In 2004, Allison and Fabian, who had been a couple in real life, broke up and also ended their professional relationship.[8] This was followed by a series of legal battles over the use of the copyright of Fabian's songs.[9] Allison also contributed five songs to Chimène Badi's hit album Dis-moi que tu m'aimes and worked on two songs Michel Sardou's album Du plaisir.[10]

Since, he has composed songs for several French and French-Canadian singers such as Gino Quilico, Vincent Niclo, Marc-André Fortin, Suzie Villeneuve and Magalie Vaé, for whom he produced the album Magalie in 2006.[10]

In 2004, Allison won the International Achievement Award with co-writer Lara Fabian at the Francophone SOCAN Awards in Montreal.[11]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Rick Allison in the French National Library. 6 March 2007 . 20 November 2015.
  2. Web site: Rick Allison veut gagner l'Eurovision . Eddy Przybylski . 6 March 2002 . dhnet.be . 20 November 2015.
  3. Web site: Biographie de Lara FABIAN . melody.tv . 20 November 2015.
  4. De l'amour le mieux, French Albums Chart Lescharts.com (Retrieved May 22, 2008)
  5. De l'amour le mieux, Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart Ultratop.be (Retrieved May 22, 2008)
  6. News: Chimène Badi in the French Albums Chart. lescharts.com . 16 September 2010.
  7. Web site: Chimène Badi – "Entre nous" in the French Singles Chart . lescharts.com . 20 November 2015.
  8. Web site: Lara Fabian : son ex, Rick Allison, l'insulte et lui demande de ne plus chanter ses chansons . Mathias Alcaraz . 30 March 2015 . . 20 November 2015.
  9. Web site: Lara Fabian poursuivie à son tour. 12 April 2007 . Ici Radio-Canada. 20 November 2015.
  10. Web site: Rick Allison on Discogs . Discogs . 20 November 2015.
  11. Web site: 2004 SOCAN AWARDS SOCAN . www.socan.ca . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160810154509/http://www.socan.ca/about/awards/2004-socan-awards . 2016-08-10.
  12. biographiesartistesquebecois.com: Suzie Villeneuve (consulté le 16 novembre 2015)

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